Example sentences of "that [modal v] [not/n't] [vb infin] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was wearing a mixture of clothes that should not have gone very well together , but they did . |
| 2 | ‘ They beat us at Filbert Street with a goal that should n't have stood . ’ |
| 3 | Well , it was something that should n't have happened and it 's very regrettable , without a doubt , very regrettable . |
| 4 | He was just pointing out little do 's and don't 's that might not have occurred to the eager amateur . |
| 5 | One large reason is that it is now often enough claimed that we take effects to be events that might not have occurred , given all things exactly as they were beforehand . |
| 6 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 7 | Like SunSoft ( UX No 414 ) , Cunningham says companies that might not have agreed to the effort in 1991 or 1992 are certain to be driven into the arms of the ABI 1993 by the impending Microsoft Corp Windows NT . |
| 8 | On his view the fact that it ceased to be a probability , and did occur , is something that might not have happened . |
| 9 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 10 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 11 | Instead what we have before us is a German triumph that could not have happened without Gorbachev and Walesa , a triumph that was not planned and which is in many ways an accident , but which nevertheless has come about because both West and East Germans have seized the moment of national opportunity . |
| 12 | As it happened that could not have worked out better . |
| 13 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 14 | It was a journey that would not have made Mrs Zamzam happy had she been able to make it herself . |
| 15 | He waited with roused senses for what would come next ; and what came was so transparent that he had hard work not to laugh , and set out without more ado to take every advantage of a stratagem that would not have fooled a child in arms . |
| 16 | Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today . |
| 17 | ‘ Held with the intention ’ has come to mean brought into being with the intention , on the part of anyone , and subsequently held , by him or by anyone else' ; and if that is what the draftsman intended or was instructed to express , the conclusion is irresistible that he did so with a degree of competence that would not have disgraced a chimpanzee learning the piano . |
| 18 | ‘ You must excuse me , ’ croaked the old woman , reaching for her handkerchief — a murky brown item that would not have looked out of place knotted round a leaky sewer pipe — ‘ But you got to laugh sometimes ! |
| 19 | Possibly a subsequent review stimulates action that would not have taken place but for the committee 's initial probing . |
| 20 | They needed clothes that would not get torn in a fight , which would stay pressed and neat and which would identify them in a crowd . |
| 21 | ‘ That is , if it was a row , not a sparring match that would n't have worried her at all . ’ |
| 22 | There was no space for two small children or one transversely-mounted adult , not a trace of walnut , and if you wanted to listen to a radio in a Cobra you 'd have needed speakers that would n't have disgraced a heavy-metal band . |
| 23 | It 's a lesson that will not have escaped Lennie Lawrence but , for the moment , he and the fans could n't be happier . |
| 24 | One export that wo n't say Made in Taiwan . |
| 25 | This is a point that can not have escaped those who will be chosing the England/Scotland/N.I. managers . |
| 26 | His initial appointment was for just two Tests , a demonstration of lack of faith that can not have helped his confidence and seemed to many to be ludicrous . |